A spirit from the past...

All right. So, it's the right time of year for spirits from the past to arise, so I thought I would do a quick update post.

I am still living in [a European capital] and still working in [my new technical, non-academic career.] Working quite a lot, in fact. It's hard to believe that three years ago I was worried about my ability to hold down a forty-hour job! Anyway, I just got promoted -- this is my first real promotion ever, incidentally -- and promotions here are sort of a big deal because we have a pretty shallow structure. So, I am thinking that I have successfully proven something to myself, and maybe it's time to slow down a bit. (I already do some things outside of work: I travel a lot, and I have made some progress with my Feanorian hobby of glassworking. I even have a group of friends, only they're mostly people from work so we enable each other's workaholism a lot, and also obviously they're people who've only known me in my latest incarnation of worky-travelly-glassmelty person, so not quite as fulfilling as lifelong friends who know a fuller package.) Oh, and I am not depressed! Whee.

And now I would like to add a warning: I might be posting a bit more in the near future. I have decided to try to recall some writing skills, and so I will be trying to do something in the spirit of NaNoWriMo: throughout this month, I want to try to write 15k words of assorted lj-postable ficlets. So it'll be sort of a wimpy WriMo for me. Real NaNoWriMo types can use my example to make themselves feel better.

I have about four ficlets planned already. Prompts are welcome, although I make no promises.